Sarah Palin Paid $100,000 To Send National Tea-Party Convention Into Spasms Of Glee*http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-sarah-palin-paid-100000-to-flirt-with-national-tea-party-convention-2010-2/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:45:32 -0400Henry Blodgethttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f89f90000000000d87c07OscarSun, 07 Feb 2010 22:50:16 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f89f90000000000d87c07
The headline would be written:
"White House Questions Origin of Palin's $100,000"http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f7016000000000013580aKris MooreSun, 07 Feb 2010 20:59:50 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f7016000000000013580a
If she is a true patriot she will put her transparent popularity behind a sound candidate, and not run.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f6fac0000000000d0cecdKris MooreSun, 07 Feb 2010 20:58:04 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f6fac0000000000d0cecd
And Obama has been full of ideas.....................
Face it, they both are not qualified to run a lemon stand.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f61bb0000000000b86322NoSingleOneSun, 07 Feb 2010 19:58:35 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f61bb0000000000b86322
<i>her record of actual political accomplishment exceeded Obama's at the time of the 2008 campaign and it still does</i>
Wow, did you stop reading anything at all after September 2008?
I live in Alaska and while her approval ratings were high when she stuck to Alaska issues before becoming VP, now I can say with confidence she is pretty much reviled by more than half the state because of her stupidity and corruption. Plus she's a quitter who bailed out early when she realized she had no chance of getting reelected, and didn't want that to tarnish her position as a "popular" governor in 2012.
But don't let actual facts inconvenience your argument.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f370900000000004ab118SteveSun, 07 Feb 2010 16:56:25 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f370900000000004ab118
You have no idea what my political leanings are. Just because I think SP is a dumbsh*t, doesn't mean I'm a liberal. The wealthy elite at the top of the Repub party (those that really pull the levers) agree with me.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f322a00000000001b104cGAZASun, 07 Feb 2010 16:35:38 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f322a00000000001b104c
put faith in no man - or woman
why do people need to worship?
Obama ASS LICKERS are just like Palin ASS LICKERS
they are ASS LICKERS
what ass do you worship = Jobs, Buffett, Welch, Gates, etc
for me it's Vidahttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f31730000000000dc649fNatkaneSun, 07 Feb 2010 16:32:35 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f31730000000000dc649f
Consider this. What if the facts were the opposite -- what if Palin DID pay someone $100,000 to send the teaparty convention into spasm of glee. In that opposite universe, how would you write the headline? Why, you would write it exactly the same! That was my point.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f30e30000000000f5c513GAZASun, 07 Feb 2010 16:30:11 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f30e30000000000f5c513
if you think Obama is "Special"
nothing else needs to be saidhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f2bea00000000006ac2cfjust.a.guySun, 07 Feb 2010 16:08:58 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f2bea00000000006ac2cf
When eliding the helping verb makes the main verb ambiguous as to its voice (Sarah palin paid / active vs. Sarah Palin was paid / inactive) then yes, it is poor grammar in that it is unnecessarily ambiguous.
It probably gets you more clicks though.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f2b080000000000a63954Glenn BeckSun, 07 Feb 2010 16:05:12 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f2b080000000000a63954
Don't trust anyone with a high IQ. Having a high IQ has been linked to socialism. I'm just a guy who loves my country.
There is no "I" in "LIBERTY".http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f29f300000000009843e3KevRockSun, 07 Feb 2010 16:00:35 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f29f300000000009843e3
ALL LIBERALS ARE ELITEST, THEY ARE SMARTER THAN THE REST OF US, THEY SEE THINGS SO CLEARLY, GOD THEY ARE SMART.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f29820000000000558ebadeoSun, 07 Feb 2010 15:58:42 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f29820000000000558eba
...and HER HAIR is HUGE>>>>>>>>>>>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f295900000000004879e3DeoSun, 07 Feb 2010 15:58:01 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f295900000000004879e3
There was nothing of substance.
Q: How do you combat terrorism?
A. WE WIN!!!!!!!
Silly, typical rebel rousing Palin stuff…take it seriously at your own risk. There is nothing behind the curtain.
Palin said “I am proud to be an American” 20 times and kept looking down at crib notes on HER HAND!!!! C’mon!
For 100 grand Palin should at least memorize her propaganda.
How rich that she read her talk in a sing-song voice as she ripped Barack Obama for using a Teleprompter. Once she left the speech for the Q&A, she really went off-message, as well as nearly off-English. (Even though it looked like, at one point, she was reading answers off of her hand.) “They’re not knowin what are we gonna do if we don’t have Tea Party support” was one of my favorite head-scratchers, a great echo of “when Putin rears his head.”http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f27a30000000000fa79c6SteveSun, 07 Feb 2010 15:50:43 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f27a30000000000fa79c6
"low rent crowd"?
You're a snob, no to mention a little piece of shit.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f23a5000000000050e5edJakeSun, 07 Feb 2010 15:33:41 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f23a5000000000050e5ed
Why did teh late Senator Chappaquiddick's seat just get handed to a Republican? Stop bitching. You sound like the late Senator Ladykiller's lame, alcoholic son moaning about Scott Brown from his Rhode Island representative's seat.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f1f860000000000b11b0eWhere's The Receipt?Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:16:06 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f1f860000000000b11b0e
Where's the receipt? How do you know this? Just because she said it, doesn't make it true. What else is she getting from them?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f1e210000000000874b95Red CrossSun, 07 Feb 2010 15:10:08 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f1e210000000000874b95
She donated the money??? Really?? Have you seen the receipts?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f1bc2000000000093bb3brunnrdadSun, 07 Feb 2010 15:00:02 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f1bc2000000000093bb3b
For the record, she donated ALL of her fee back to the Tea Party group. So easy to check, but, hey, better to run a false headline, stir up some shit and get lots of hits.
This kind of article is not meant to be informative, it's meant to make Henry money. Just so we keep things straight.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f18300000000000aa1882Katie BoyerSun, 07 Feb 2010 14:44:48 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f18300000000000aa1882
For those uncomfortable with the favorite words of leading Democrats, 'Negro' and 'retarded,' I have a question:
Are you comfortable with the words or with Harry Reid and Rahm Emanuel?"http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f18060000000000092d25Dennis F.Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:44:05 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f18060000000000092d25
I may be wrong but it was my understanding that Gov. Palin was going to donate a large portion or all of the speaking fee back to the Teaparty. I say I may be wrong because I am not a reporter; but, if i were a reporter I would have checked this possibility out before making the assertion in the headline. This is one of the reasons why so many people have such a high level of contempt for the media.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f171e000000000063377fDavid BrinkleySun, 07 Feb 2010 14:40:14 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f171e000000000063377f
I do not get it. How can you think Obama is qualified to be President but Palin is not.
Obama is always the most unaccomplished, arrogant person in the room.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f171800000000009471dcBerend de BoerSun, 07 Feb 2010 14:40:08 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f171800000000009471dc
Right, what would be an original idea?
And I would say that once we've found a good idea, what's the shame in using it?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f15240000000000c0c8d7Stanley LordSun, 07 Feb 2010 14:31:47 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f15240000000000c0c8d7
All you women /Sarah haters are going to be very unhappy after Sarah defeats Obama.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f1348000000000090a946SteveSun, 07 Feb 2010 14:23:52 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f1348000000000090a946
Sarah will never win a national election. Those at the top of the Repub hierarchy will never allow it. But, she sure knows how to work the low rent crowd into a frenzy. She's about as smart as my dog... wait, sorry Fido, I didn't mean to insult you.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f0ec80000000000d6658bMr. PracticalSun, 07 Feb 2010 14:04:40 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f0ec80000000000d6658b
That's nothing. Clinton pulls in 250,000-2,000,000 per appearance. Oddly, politics is supposed to be celebrity for ugly people, and Sarah is a MILF.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f0d40000000000022494aTrailerParkRedneckSun, 07 Feb 2010 13:58:08 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f0d40000000000022494a
"We win, they lose."
Interestingly that was similar to Obama's response ("I won") a year ago when he rejected a Republican's alternative idea to "stimulus" in place of his own - now proven to be worthless - ideas for stopping job losses.
Palin's main role is to drive left-wingers nuts because, as bad as she is, her record of actual political accomplishment exceeded Obama's at the time of the 2008 campaign and it still does. So despite her supposed lack of ideas she's pretty effective.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f0b730000000000672668RichSun, 07 Feb 2010 13:50:27 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f0b730000000000672668
The revenge of the stupid.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f08080000000000a00235SortiSun, 07 Feb 2010 13:35:52 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f08080000000000a00235
from Amazon Product Details
Barack Obama's book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Publisher: Three Rivers Press; Later Printing edition (August 10, 2004)
"right after election night"? it was a reprint deal.
This guy wrote this book before his Presidential election.
Compare him to Bush. Bush, presidential name, son of a vice president, ultimately installed by the Supreme Court not voters.
Only After Bush had been a Supreme Court installed incumbent and years of swift boat lies was he able to get re-elected to president by voters.
Comparing Palin and Bush to Obama is a very bad idea, 3 very different people.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f06840000000000221710logic doesn't always workSun, 07 Feb 2010 13:29:24 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f06840000000000221710
...by that logic, you'd expect that a crazy, nonsensical book like "Mein Kampf" would've ended its author's political career.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f04ad00000000001c7c43RBWSun, 07 Feb 2010 13:21:33 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f04ad00000000001c7c43
If their message is that the government wastes our money AND our President wasn't born in this country, then I would suspect this will also be the final Tea Party convention. Or at least the last one given any kind of ink any where.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f03ba00000000007e35ddBible Republican, Birther, Truther, Re-Founder, Shoutdowner and Tea Partyer Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:17:30 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f03ba00000000007e35dd
That woman gets things done. Standing up there and talking to 5,000,000 people watching her speech takes SOME NERVE. Now I don't know if Glenn Beck's numbers --5,123,987 Tea Partyers in attendance---- was RIGHT or not cause you know he's got THEM EYES and all and they are so sharp sometimes he can see more than one person if one person is standing there. GOD I HOPE SHE RUNS FOR PRESIDENT!!! Now God kicked us out of the Garden of Eden due to a WOMAN'S desire for an APPLE and all but since we're kind of SCREWED in that regard until the JUDGEMENT DAY we might as well have a WOMAN President. And she will FIGHT THE LIBERALS. Now I ain't see ner birth certificate yet and that is important but I know she'll produce the LIBERAL DOCUMENT called a Birth Certificate. Whose business is it wher I was born??? WHY DO THE LIBERALS want to take my birth freedom and let everbody know it? What if the terrists go get my birth certificate and said they was me? Since LIBERALS are basically TERRISTS, they want to know who we are!!!!! I hope Ms. Palin don't reveal hers to the LIBERALS who make us do paperwork and get licenses to drive a car. A hunnert thousand dollars ain't enough for a good LIBERAL FIGHTER like Ms. Sarah who was th Gov. of Alaska and we bought Alaska from the Rooskies and all and in the land of the midnight sun the man with the eyepatch is King? King Vidor made a lot of TV shows about Alaska like Sgt Preston of the Alaska Mounties and his dog "Shaneequa". In those shows the Alaska Mounties always got their man and that's why Alaska will never get Sarah Palin!!!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f02a10000000000835502bostonguySun, 07 Feb 2010 13:12:49 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f02a10000000000835502
I love this quote:
To win that war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law,” she declared.
Remember, she was a weathergirl. Not sure where that fits into her declaration....http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f013700000000005ba5bdHistory does not repeat itself, but it does rhymeSun, 07 Feb 2010 13:06:47 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6f013700000000005ba5bd
"Our future is about to get really entertaining"
...about as entertaining as the last days of the Weimar Republic.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6effdb0000000000a64df3William1066Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:00:59 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6effdb0000000000a64df3
She's a lot like Obama - telegenic, able to whip crowds into frenzy, but not a lot of experience where it matters.
People project what they want on each of them. When the rubber hits the road, then disappointment sets in.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6efeaf000000000011ecefGeorge MSun, 07 Feb 2010 12:55:58 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6efeaf000000000011ecef
Henry, do you know of any good biography of Evita Peron. Our Sarah sounds more and more like her reincarnation. The Tea Party crowd is the new "shirtless ones." Our future is about to get really entertaining.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6efd040000000000dd2c48reader7Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:48:52 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6efd040000000000dd2c48
Oh, please! This meme has already been debunked. The woman had note cards, not everyone packs a teleprompter everywhere they go.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6efc3a000000000085733bthinkSun, 07 Feb 2010 12:45:29 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6efc3a000000000085733b
I think the fact that Governor Palin decided to share a speaking lineup at yesterday's Tea Party Convention with Mr. Farah of World Net Daily is very informative concerning the nature of the Tea Party movement.
Mr. Farah spent ten minutes of his forty minute speech yesterday addressing President Obama's citizenship. The Tea Party convention received this "birther" rhetoric with loud applause.
To accurately portray the Tea Party Convention the Business Insider should report on Mr. Farah's speech yesterday as well.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef743000000000093b3c1Matt WilsteinSun, 07 Feb 2010 12:24:19 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef743000000000093b3c1
You can watch the video of Palin reading off of her hand at the Tea Party convention here:
http://www.gotchamediablog.com/2010/02/sarah-palin-reads-crib-notes-from-her.htmlhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef4300000000000c83a22ClampitSun, 07 Feb 2010 12:11:12 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef4300000000000c83a22
I expected a totally *different* article....+1 for attention grabbing headline.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef420000000000046138cfatcatSun, 07 Feb 2010 12:10:56 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef420000000000046138c
Is it just me or does she look cross-eyed in the pic?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef3a7000000000004a89ffatcatSun, 07 Feb 2010 12:08:55 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef3a7000000000004a89f
Damn,Nick....you seem to have a handle on grammar...at least ,you're trying.That's a rarity on this site...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef38600000000004e987dPTRSun, 07 Feb 2010 12:08:22 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef38600000000004e987d
I've got to agree with joe poncakia. I love this site for business news, but keep the political stuff out of it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef2360000000000cef535HobojoeSun, 07 Feb 2010 12:02:46 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef2360000000000cef535
You communists don;t think people should be allowed to make money...I am sorry is this site a free site set up for the public interest, or are you clowns trying to make money off of it....move to N.Korea if you think people shouldn;t be allowed to make and keep the money they makehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef07b00000000004094afNick SaintSun, 07 Feb 2010 11:55:23 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ef07b00000000004094af
Fair enough if this was actually confusing, but this isn't really a grammatical error -- it's pretty standard to elide the helping verb in passive headlines, e.g. "Thousands Killed in Earthquake".http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6eed470000000000a16870NatkaneSun, 07 Feb 2010 11:41:42 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6eed470000000000a16870
And I'm not being snarky. It just wasn't clear to me whether the headline meant that she paid or was paid.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6eec2500000000004dff15joe poncakiaSun, 07 Feb 2010 11:36:53 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6eec2500000000004dff15
First of all, she donated the money. Second of all, why is she the only politician that gets called out when she gets a fee for making a speech?
I like you Henry, but you have to get your nose out of Obama's ass.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6eebb70000000000f3a6ceAndrewSun, 07 Feb 2010 11:35:03 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6eebb70000000000f3a6ce
Her speech was a reminder why she wasn't elected.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ee4e40000000000c793eeTy GibsonSun, 07 Feb 2010 11:05:56 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ee4e40000000000c793ee
She is the Democratic party's only hope.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ee4bd00000000002cb230NatkaneSun, 07 Feb 2010 11:05:16 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ee4bd00000000002cb230
Grammatically, "Palin paid $100,000" (as set forth in the headline) means exactly the opposite of "Palin was paid $100,000" (as set forth in the article).http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ee4590000000000547b12RickSun, 07 Feb 2010 11:03:37 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ee4590000000000547b12
Why is this dumb ass Palin still getting media coverage?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ee1920000000000a3a22dJamaicafestSun, 07 Feb 2010 10:51:46 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ee1920000000000a3a22d
My favorite part of the was after her speech when she was asked by the interviewer about what her policy on terror would be if she was president. Her reply was a Reagan quote "We win, they lose." She has no original ideas. She is good at repeating cliches.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ee07f0000000000ced27eGAZASun, 07 Feb 2010 10:47:11 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6ee07f0000000000ced27e
they are all SHILLS = especially Obama = remember his book deal done right after election night
Wall St. values have corrupted America = if "IT" makes money = good
so we all live in one very large Whore House where the only debate is on PRICE
hope you like it Henry